Everton bid £18m for Sunderland defender Lamine Kone


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The only explanation I can come up with in my head is if we sell Kone for £18m or £21m whatever is and there was reports about Lens leaving too. If we get £30m for them two players, it's gonna give Moyes some maneuvering in the market and could potentially get 4 or 5 for that.

I am clutching at straws mind.
Don't think it's clutching at straws, Moyes said he does this in his press conference. Rooney, Arteta, Rodwell, Lescott were all sold and funds used to improve overall squad strength.

We were (nearly) all happy with Moyes appointment, maybe we should just trust him on this?

If (big if I know!) Papy is an equal replacement we may have £12 million profit to buy a striker with?
 
As I've already said it would have been put in front of him as an incentive to sign for a club that looked on its way out of the Premier League, same as relegation clauses would have been put in, we weren't the only club interested in him.

Giver over

Who else was he going to join?

He joined from a mid table French side and got a f***ing massive pay rise

We were the only one who wanted him.
 
You're comparing a Quinn & Bruce transfer policy to Moyes and Baine......

I'm merely highlighting how difficult it is to replace a good player. It's not as simple as some on here think........as if there's some kind of hidden pool of £5m CB's in France that only we have access to. We probably got lucky with Kone.
 
It's not how it works though.....look at my earlier post where i highlighted our attempts to replace Henderson......we never did despite 7 attempts costing a lot more than we raised with the sale.
Or take take the case of Bent. It would have been far cheaper to,just pay his wages, but Short was in full sell to buy mode, as he still appears to be. I still say that the bulk of this window's budget was spent in January.
 
It's not how it works though.....look at my earlier post where i highlighted our attempts to replace Henderson......we never did despite 7 attempts costing a lot more than we raised with the sale.

That because of how shite our recruitment policy was. Its also the reason we nearly went down for the last 5 years in a row. Cant use that as a yardstick for goig fwd. Got to have some faith in current setup. If i was ellis id sell. If i was moyes id sell. If that modji fells is good then there is dimply nothig to worry about
 
You're comparing a Quinn & Bruce transfer policy to Moyes and Baine......
There we have it, two new blokes out to show Short that they are better than their predecessors and can do the job on little or no money. We all, know that you can't. This is only a passing thought, we will know in a few weeks.
 
Im not being blinded by anything, Moyes has a managerial choice to make, that's why he was employed. All clubs sell players in order to further strengthen, why should we be any different?

I wont be throwing my toys out of the pram that's for sure.

because he's our best defender in well over a decade and we are relegation material.

Selling him makes us significantly weaker....it's not like we are in a position to be significantly weaker is it?
 
you are Clueless who is oshea? :lol:
Eh?

You said best player and are now (I think?) comparing to O'Shea alone?

For me, Kaboul, Defoe, Kirchoff are all better. Possibly PVA too. Khazri could be if he gets more consistent, but not yet.

you are Clueless who is oshea? :lol:
And seems as you asked, O Shea won the champions league, played hundreds of times for one of the world's most successful teams and managers, captained his side at international tournaments.

Kone played for L'Orient and has 5 caps.
 
Im not being blinded by anything, Moyes has a managerial choice to make, that's why he was employed. All clubs sell players in order to further strengthen, why should we be any different?

I wont be throwing my toys out of the pram that's for sure.
It is who he replaces the sold player with. The best anyone can say is they don't know about our big signing so far, as for the others we have a fair idea.
 
I don't think so. You don't sell your best players if you want to progress.
Progress where? The best we will ever achieve is mid table. So year on year staying up is the aim and selling players for enough profit to maintain that position is sensible. We can't afford not to sell players at an inflated profit.
 
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